In the fourth installment of the Mission: Impossible series, Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise, Eyes Wide Shut) and his team must track down a dangerous terrorist named Hendricks (Michael Nyqvist, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo), who has gained access to Russian nuclear launch codes and is planning a strike on the United States.
An attempt by the team to stop him at the Kremlin ends in a disaster, with an explosion causing severe destruction to the Kremlin, forcing the President to invoke Ghost Protocol, under which the IMF will be offered no help or backup in any form. Undaunted, Ethan and his team chase Hendricks to Dubai, and from there to Mumbai, but several spectacular action sequences later, they might still be too late to stop a disaster ...